Hi all,

 

to get right straight to my question - i was wanting to know which is the
proper file system to choose for a (normal)  USB 2.0 data/flash stick -
autofs, usbfs or maybe vfat?  The stick is of course usable under Windows as
well as linux (from kernel 2.4.x).  I believe I need to set this in the
fstab file, correct?

 

My problem leading up to this question is - twice now in the past couple of
weeks I had my machine lockout access to various services, actually pretty
much all services, including mail (courier/postfix), web (apache 2.2), SSH,
DNS, just to name the main ones.  This time I found something odd - a
message telling me that the autofs had a problem because of bogus options.
This lead me to believe the problem came from me mounting my USB 2.0 data
stick which I use to backup data.  After transferring the data, I umount the
file system.  The only other thing I've done prior to the last occurrence
was that I updated the kernel to 2.6.18-6-686.

 

Any and all info/help on this matter will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

Robert

 

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